It includes diagrammatic and theoretical representation of concepts that help to explore the full potential of Java. The summary at the end of each chapter helps to clear the basics. Solved programming examples along with their explanation make the learning look simple and interesting. It contains the following chapters :

1. Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming

2. Introduction to Java

3. Preparing and running a Java program

4. Java Fundamentals

5. Control Structures

6. Classes, Objects, and Methods

7. Arrays and Strings

8. Inheritance and Interfaces

9. Packages

10. Exception Handling

11. Threads

12. Input/Output in Java

13. Creating GUI Applications using AWT

14. Creating GUI Applications using Swing

15. Event Handling

16. Java Applets

17. Graphics Programming

18. Extending the GUI

19. Networking with Java

20. JDBC

21. Java Servlets